New Feature: Longacre Genre Analysis
What Is It?
The Longacre Genre Analysis Dataset employs Robert Longacre’s categories of discourse genre, as detailed in his The Grammar of Discourse, to the pericopes of the Old and New Testaments. We have adapted Longacre’s taxonomy of four main genres, each having two sub-genres according to the needs of the project. They are listed below:
Narrative
Story
Future Events
Procedural
How it was done
How to do it
Behavioral
Evaluation
Hortatory
Expository
What things are or were like
What things will be like
Texts are placed in these categories according to three different surface features: Agent focus, temporal succession, and projection.
How Does It Work?
The Longacre Genre Analysis Dataset data can be accessed and searched from the context menu. Or, if you know the syntax, can simply be searched in a new search query. You can find all the various types of speech acts and the search query in the Longacre Genre Analysis Dataset Documentation.
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